Countries by life expectancy

Name: Countries by life expectancy, 2017
Creator: World Bank
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Monaco had the highest life expectancy of 215 countries in 2017, at 85.88 years. South Sudan had the lowest, at 35.35 years. The median was 73.99 years and the figure for the World was 72.37 years. Source: the World Bank.

Highest85.88Monaco

Lowest35.35South Sudan

Median73.99215 countries

World72.37History

Top 40 countries, 2017

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years. Source: World Bank. Retrieved 2026-10-09.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2017 years	Change on 2016
1	Monaco	85.88	+0.25
2	San Marino	84.93	+0.16
3	Hong Kong	84.7	+0.48
4	Andorra	84.36	-0.13
5	Japan	84.1	+0.11
6	Liechtenstein	83.75	+1.49
7	Switzerland	83.55	-0.05
8	Macao	83.53	+0.25
9	Spain	83.28	-0.05
10	Singapore	83.1	+0.25
11	Italy	82.95	-0.3
12	Gibraltar	82.86	+0.12
13	French Polynesia	82.77	+0.22
14	Iceland	82.66	+0.46
15	South Korea	82.63	+0.35
16	Norway	82.61	+0.2
17	France	82.58	0
18	Israel	82.55	+0.14
19	Australia	82.5	+0.05
20	Qatar	82.46	+0.31
21	Sweden	82.41	+0.1
22	United Arab Emirates	82.39	+0.19
23	Malta	82.2	-0.16
24	Ireland	82.16	+0.5
25	Faroe Islands	82.11	+0.14
26	Luxembourg	82.1	-0.59
27	New Zealand	81.86	+0.2
28	Canada	81.81	-0.13
29	Netherlands	81.76	+0.2
30	Austria	81.64	0
31	Finland	81.63	+0.2
32	Cyprus	81.54	+0.01
33	Belgium	81.49	+0.05
34	Portugal	81.42	+0.3
35	Greece	81.29	-0.1
36	United Kingdom	81.26	+0.1
37	Denmark	81.1	+0.25
38	Slovenia	81.03	-0.15
39	Germany	80.99	0
40	Bermuda	80.69	+0.21
41	Chile	80.61	+0.31
42	Isle of Man	80.51	+0.11
43	Bahrain	80.41	0
44	Costa Rica	79.99	+0.01
45	Kuwait	79.92	+0.24
46	Oman	79.75	+0.17
47	U.S. Virgin Islands	79.37	+0.2
48	Maldives	79.23	+0.31
49	Puerto Rico	79.07	-1.29
50	Czechia	78.98	-0.05
51	Albania	78.9	+0.26
52	Saint Martin	78.76	-1.12
53	Saudi Arabia	78.72	+0.37
54	Cayman Islands	78.62	+0.25
55	United States	78.54	0
56	Lebanon	78.19	-0.11
57	Estonia	78.09	+0.45
58	Panama	77.9	+0.13
59	Poland	77.75	-0.1
60	Croatia	77.73	-0.2
61	Uruguay	77.62	+0.27
62	Turks and Caicos Islands	77.51	+0.07
63	New Caledonia	77.5	+0.15
64	Northern Mariana Islands	77.47	+0.08
65	Bosnia and Herzegovina	77.39	+0.26
66	Cuba	77.3	-0.27
67	China	77.24	+0.02
68	Slovakia	77.17	0
69	Türkiye	77.04	+0.44
70	Antigua and Barbuda	77.03	+0.06
71	Thailand	76.99	+0.22
72	Montenegro	76.69	+0.14
73	Argentina	76.54	+0.44
74	Guam	76.46	+0.01
75	Curaçao	76.42	+0.1
76	Colombia	76.42	+0.19
77	Iran	76.4	+0.24
78	Sri Lanka	76.24	+0.1
79	Barbados	76.24	+0.07
80	Ecuador	76.22	+0.13
81	Jordan	76.07	+0.52
82	Peru	75.96	+0.01
83	North Macedonia	75.95	+0.55
84	Hungary	75.82	-0.25
85	British Virgin Islands	75.67	-0.95
86	Aruba	75.62	+0.08
87	Malaysia	75.54	+0.17
88	Serbia	75.54	-0.15
89	Lithuania	75.48	+0.81
90	Sint Maarten	75.46	-0.5
91	Algeria	75.43	+0.12
92	Brazil	75.38	+0.3
93	Armenia	75.22	+0.35
94	Palestine	75.22	+0.3
95	Romania	75.21	0
96	Tunisia	75.18	+0.17
97	Grenada	74.98	-0.03
98	Brunei	74.94	+0.04
99	Bulgaria	74.81	0
100	Cape Verde	74.71	+0.36
101	Latvia	74.63	+0.05
102	Mauritius	74.51	+0.12
103	Seychelles	74.3	-0.01
104	Mexico	74.26	-0.12
105	Belarus	74.13	+0.3
106	Bahamas	74.03	-0.01
107	Vietnam	74.03	+0.04
108	Ukraine	73.99	+0.6
109	Morocco	73.61	+0.38
110	Paraguay	73.45	-0.04
111	Georgia	73.44	+0.3
112	Nicaragua	73.39	+0.21
113	Dominican Republic	73.37	+0.48
114	North Korea	73.03	+0.06
115	Kazakhstan	73	+0.45
116	Trinidad and Tobago	72.98	+0.05
117	American Samoa	72.8	+0.16
118	Libya	72.72	+0.92
119	Azerbaijan	72.69	+0.13
120	Saint Lucia	72.52	-0.03
121	Russia	72.45	+0.8
122	Tonga	72.07	+0.12
123	Belize	72.06	+0.22
124	Venezuela	71.9	-0.1
125	Jamaica	71.88	-0.17
126	Honduras	71.81	+0.19
127	Uzbekistan	71.74	+0.16
128	Bangladesh	71.61	+0.53
129	Guatemala	71.58	+0.37
130	Bhutan	71.41	+0.29
131	Saint Kitts and Nevis	71.28	+0.06
132	Greenland	71.26	+0.06
133	Suriname	71.25	+0.27
134	Kyrgyzstan	71.2	+0.25
135	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	71.01	+0.31
136	El Salvador	71.01	+0.1
137	Samoa	70.99	-0.01
138	Egypt	70.71	+0.27
139	Mongolia	70.54	+0.32
140	Tajikistan	70.52	+0.54
141	Vanuatu	70.5	+0.1
142	Moldova	70.38	+0.2
143	India	70.07	+0.36
144	Philippines	69.97	+0.48
145	Indonesia	69.95	+0.22
146	Cambodia	69.84	+0.21
147	Iraq	69.79	+1.1
148	Solomon Islands	69.65	+0.15
149	Turkmenistan	69.19	+0.05
150	Palau	69.02	-0.03
151	Nepal	68.74	+0.3
152	Dominica	68.62	-2.57
153	Guyana	68.54	+0.47
154	Bolivia	67.54	+0.14
155	Laos	67.35	+0.33
156	Yemen	67.12	+0.02
157	Mauritania	67.09	+0.27
158	São Tomé and Príncipe	67.07	+0.51
159	Fiji	67.06	+0.4
160	Senegal	67.06	+0.33
161	Gabon	66.82	+0.23
162	Eritrea	66.61	+0.37
163	Pakistan	66.22	+0.28
164	Rwanda	66.14	+0.41
165	Myanmar	65.91	+0.27
166	Timor-Leste	65.9	+0.29
167	Kiribati	65.79	-0.01
168	Micronesia	65.76	+0.19
169	Tuvalu	65.68	+0.17
170	Marshall Islands	65.67	+0.2
171	Syria	65.65	+0.46
172	South Africa	65.42	+0.67
173	Botswana	65.42	+1.1
174	Uganda	65.17	+0.68
175	Sudan	65.15	+0.47
176	Comoros	65.13	+0.33
177	Tanzania	64.96	+0.56
178	Papua New Guinea	64.92	+0.22
179	Ethiopia	64.77	+0.6
180	Republic of the Congo	64.2	+0.29
181	Malawi	63.91	+0.75
182	Haiti	63.83	+0.51
183	Ghana	63.83	+0.31
184	Djibouti	63.71	+0.38
185	Gambia	63.71	+0.32
186	Madagascar	63.43	0
187	Kenya	62.73	+0.2
188	Afghanistan	62.41	-0.24
189	Angola	62.12	+0.5
190	Namibia	61.66	+0.85
191	Zambia	61.56	+0.44
192	Equatorial Guinea	61.48	+0.4
193	Burundi	61.35	+0.56
194	Guinea-Bissau	61.15	+0.53
195	Nauru	61.1	+0.1
196	Cameroon	60.82	+0.52
197	Liberia	60.78	+0.29
198	Zimbabwe	60.26	+0.5
199	Mozambique	60.15	+0.69
200	Togo	60.15	+0.47
201	Burkina Faso	59.58	+0.41
202	Benin	59.53	+0.24
203	Niger	59.52	+0.3
204	Democratic Republic of the Congo	59.5	+0.41
205	Côte d’Ivoire	59.32	+0.5
206	Guinea	58.72	+0.23
207	Mali	58.56	+0.28
208	Sierra Leone	57.76	+0.82
209	Eswatini	57.57	+1.35
210	Lesotho	53.87	+0.97
211	Nigeria	52.4	+0.21
212	Somalia	52.19	-3.09
213	Chad	51.88	+0.27
214	Central African Republic	45.23	-5.77
215	South Sudan	35.35	-1.37

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About this ranking

Average number of years a newborn would live at current age-specific mortality, both sexes.

United States: NCHS period life tables. National figures from 1900 to 1932 cover only the states then in the death registration area. State figures are available for 2018 to 2021.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

World Bank, World Development Indicators. Life expectancy at birth, total, years (SP.DYN.LE00.IN). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN. Retrieved 2026-10-09.

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Which country has the highest life expectancy?

Monaco, with 85.88 years in 2017, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest life expectancy?

South Sudan, with 35.35 years in 2017.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: World Bank, Life expectancy at birth, total, years (SP.DYN.LE00.IN). Retrieved 2026-10-09.